San Francisco Bay Area

What is the capital of California?

a) Los Angeles

b) Sacramento

c) San Diego

What is the name of this bay?

a) San Pablo Bay

b) San Francisco Bay

c) Drakes Bay

What is the name of this bridge?

a) Golden Gate Bridge

b) Bay Bridge

c) Richmond Bridge

What is the name of this bridge?

a) Golden Gate Bridge

b) Bay Bridge

c) Richmond Bridge

What county is north of the Golden Gate Bridge?

a) Alameda

b) Marin

c) San Mateo

What is this region called?

a) The East Bay

b) The West Bay

c) The North Bay

Which of these cities is in the East Bay?

a) Oakland

b) San Jose

c) San Mateo

Which of these counties IS a Bay Area county?

a) Monterrey

b) Sacramento

c) Santa Clara

Which ocean lies to the west of San Francisco?

a) Atlantic

b) Pacific

c) Indian

Which large university is in Berkeley?

a) UC Berkeley

b) CSU Berkeley

c) East Bay University

The California missions were founded by which European country?

a) France

b) Spain

c) England

Today, what name do we call Mission San Francisco de Asís?

a) Mission Dolores

b) Mission Feliz

c) Mission Park

What happened in California in mid 1800s that caused such rapid growth?

a) The American Revolution

b) The Civil War

c) The Gold Rush

What was the year of the famous San Francisco earthquake?

a) 1906

b) 1806

c) 2006

What island is in front of Angel Island in this photograph?

a) Channel Islands

b) Catalina Island

c) Alcatraz Island

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn, what year did it start in

most places?

a) 1929

b) 1829

c) 1950

During World War II, battleships were needed. Most war ships in the country were produced at the Kaiser shipyards, in which Bay Area city?

a) Richmond

b) Concord

c) San Francisco

California-based Black Nationalist organization, the Black Panthers, originated

in which East Bay City?

a) Berkeley

b) Oakland

c) Walnut Creek

Silicon Valley is the leading high-tech center in the US, where is it?

a) East Bay

b) North Bay

c) South Bay

This neighborhood was the center of the 1960s Hippie Movement

a) Haight-Ashbury

b) Richmond District

c) Mission

What’s the name of the Italian neighborhood?

a) Chinatown

b) North Beach

c) Noe Valley

San Francisco City Hall is in which neighborhood?

a) Civic Center

b) Haight-Ashbury

c) Mission

Who is the Mayor of San Francisco?

a) Willie Brown

b) Jerry Brown

c) Gavin Newsom

What is the name of the gay neighborhood?

a) Mission

b) Glenn Park

c) Castro

Which neighborhood is considered the Latino neighborhood?

a) The Mission

b) Civic Center

c) Potrero Hill

What is the name of San Francisco’s famous wharf?

a) Fog Wharf

b) Fisherman’s Wharf

c) Crab Wharf

What is the name of this famous skyscraper?

a) Transamerica Pyramid

b) Bank of America Building

c) 101 California

Opened in 1870, what is the name of the largest park in San Francisco?

a) Jackson Park

b) Golden Gate Park

c) Mission Dolores Park

There are two islands in the Bay between San Francisco and Oakland. One is called Yerba Buena Island, what is the name of the other island?

a) Treasure Island

b) Oakland Island

c) Catalina Island

What’s the name of this San Francisco cathedral?

a) Grace Cathedral

b) Notre Dame Cathedral

c) Oakland Cathedral

What is the name of San Francisco’s baseball team?

a) SF Giants

b) SF Yankees

c) SF A’s